We performed a comparison between Microsoft Identity Manager and Symantec Identity Governance and Administration based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Identity Management (IM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the automatic provisioning and reconciliation of things like the Active Directory groups and memberships."
"User-friendly solution."
"We used to have a problem where an employee's access wasn't terminated when they left the company. Now, we have much better visibility into and control over who has access."
"The most valuable aspect of the product is that it is Microsoft-based and it supports all Microsoft technology."
"Our customers have benefited from Omada Identity automating the certification process. Most of our customers were using manual methods for user access certification. With Omada Identity, you can automate almost all of it, which means that certification now becomes on demand. You don't have to wait for two or three months to execute a certification timeframe. Instead, you can do certifications as often as you want."
"It scales in terms of numbers and types of identities. It can govern the on-premise applications as well as the cloud applications. So, it can manage hybrid environments with all types of identities and various load amounts."
"The thing that I find most valuable is that Omada consists of building blocks, which means that you can configure almost anything you want without using custom code, making it pretty easy to do. It's possible to connect to multiple target systems and to create one role that consists of different permissions in the different target systems. So one role in Omada can make sure that you have an account in three different systems."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to set up connectors to various IT systems and offer a wide range of supported connectors."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides protection for our company documents."
"Microsoft Identity Manager's documentation is good, and its end-user portal is user-friendly."
"Its interface and the fact that it's integrated with everything in the Microsoft ecosystem are the most valuable features."
"MIM's most valuable feature is its connectivity with Exchange."
"The concept is primarily for the people in the business. In business, you can discuss how integrating all the services and resources within the company can bring numerous benefits."
"The product’s most valuable feature is stability."
"I appreciate how Microsoft keeps adding new features to Microsoft Identity Manager."
"The product’s simplicity and integration are valuable."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"When comparing it to other products, you can set up CA IAM in a PoC very quickly to demonstrate its provisioning capabilities."
"I like that it is easy to diagnose. It has a version of a virtual appliance so we can download it, run it, configure it, and it would take about 10 to 15 minutes to configure the cluster or so."
"Connector Xpress and Policy Xpress and the new interface."
"Streamlines user access, consolidates applications."
"What I found most valuable in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is its simple GUI. It's also easy to deploy compared to other products. With other products, you have to install the Windows version inside the Windows machine on all units, but with Symantec Identity Governance and Administration, it can work offline, so the solution is a little bit easier than other systems."
"It offers a nice price. It's mid-range."
"It is easy to use, and does not requires an extensive programming or development background."
"When making a process, you should be able to use some coding to do some advanced calculations. The calculations you can currently do are too basic. I would also like some additional script features."
"The account management integration isn't bad, but it isn't plug-and-play like Microsoft Azure. You need some deep development knowledge to set up the connectors."
"Omada Identity has a steep learning curve."
"They need to improve the cost for small companies."
"Functionality and usability could be improved."
"When the re-certification process is launched that makes Omada very slow. There are performance issues in the current version."
"What I would most like to see added to the product is role management, especially enterprise or business role management, and the processes around that."
"If you find an error and you need it fixed, you have to upgrade. It's not like they say, "Okay, we'll fix this problem for you." You have to upgrade. The last time we upgraded, because there was an error in a previous version, we had to pay 150,000 Danish Krone (about $24,000 at the time of this review) to upgrade our systems... That means that we have to pay to get errors fixed that Omada has made in programming the system. I hope they change this way of looking at things."
"This product was only launched two or three years ago and it is still in the process of becoming stable."
"Instead of using the connectors from the third-party companies, they should make the Microsoft templates available with this product. If Microsoft would increase the number of the box connectors that would be helpful to all the customers who use it daily."
"Microsoft Identity Manager could be more intuitive in terms of interface."
"It would be good if Microsoft Identity Manager Maybe could be integrated with Azure Active Directory directly and made as a cloud platform."
"They have to improve the User Entity and Behavioral Analysis."
"The information that is available for the Active Directory portal is segregated here and there."
"All actions require logging in to the server."
"In terms of the identity and access management solution for on-premises environment, I think Microsoft needs to eliminate or minimize the number of workloads for the solution to run in on-premises environment."
"The product works slowly while accessing cloud-native solutions."
"The development process to create this connector is not as easy as I would like."
"The Identity tool needs to do more kinds of reporting for audit purposes. It doesn't really track any of the metrics that are useful to us, at this point."
"Provisioning has a dependency on Windows."
"The product's technical support could be better."
"There are several areas for improvement in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration. They have no proper documentation on how to do backups. They also have a lengthy workflow process where we have to make some configurations to manage automation in the rules and in our tasks which takes time. We have to manually configure all the configuration files, and we cannot export users because there's no export system in Symantec Identity Governance and Administration. What we'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for them to make configuration and integration with other systems their top priorities. We have many API systems to manage, so hopefully, if they make these enhancements shortly, we can directly connect with our API systems when using Symantec Identity Governance and Administration."
"I find the API boring. I also faced issues while integrating with CA SSO."
"Although the capabilities are there, the user interface needs to be redesigned and the opportunities for integration should be improved."
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Microsoft Identity Manager is ranked 5th in Identity Management (IM) with 9 reviews while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is ranked 16th in Identity Management (IM) with 6 reviews. Microsoft Identity Manager is rated 7.8, while Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Identity Manager writes "Efficient integration of services and resources within the organization". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Identity Governance and Administration writes "Has a simple GUI and is easy to deploy, but has no proper documentation on how to do backups, and has lengthy configurations and workflows". Microsoft Identity Manager is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Entra Permissions Management, Saviynt and CrowdStrike Identity Protection, whereas Symantec Identity Governance and Administration is most compared with SailPoint IdentityIQ, AlertEnterprise Enterprise Guardian, SAP Identity Management, BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management and Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine). See our Microsoft Identity Manager vs. Symantec Identity Governance and Administration report.
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